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Burnt Offering /

Burnt Offering is Joan Metelerkamp's seventh collection of poems. The title comes from a poem in a cycle that embodies the labours of the medieval alchemists - heating and burning, transformation of passionate intensity, the search for an enduring element. In the process malignant doubt is burn...

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Autor principal: Metelerkamp, Joan, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athlone, South Africa : Modjaji Books, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Prologue; Points on Poems; Penelope; Alchemical Incantations; Burning; Burnt offering; Dissolving in its own water; Sea; Down to earth; Incarnate; Rock; Rock; The Hill; Where are you; Bury the dead; Sorting it out; Marry Maree; Come together; Intact; Believing; Body of work; Came back wanting; Twee Rivieren; Crossing the Crocodile; Notes and Acknowledgements; Back Cover